Mamoli Mission Mozambique (MMM) charity has been in existence since 1996. It started out as the Mozambique Community Church and quickly grew to .

Simao and Annette Mucache, who founded the church, soon realized there was no schooling in the area so a little school was started which included a boarding facility for a few children. There were very few work opportunities and no shops to buy food. A handcraft business was started and an oven was built for baking bread. A vegetable garden was also established.

Fourteen years later the school now covers 7 grades and has 47 children (many of whom are orphans) in the boarding house. Next year we have received government permission to add grades 8 and 9 (as long as we can accommodate and feed the pupils - for which there is no government aid!) We will need to build more accommodation and create a food budget for an estimated 40 new pupils who will otherwise have to stop schooling.

Programs run under MMM include the church, school, boarding house, Mercy Air “flying doctor” service, handcrafts, bread baking, a camp site to bring in income, vegetables, AIDS counseling, etc. Some of these projects are described below.

Mercy Air helicopter outreaches include clinic visits as well as humanitarian and spiritual input into remote communities. Support needed in this project includes financial support for a nurse, clothes and blankets, building materials or money to put towards a clinic which we need to build. Volunteers can sometimes be accommodated in this project.

One of our main goals is to make the mission self sufficient, both financially as well as agriculturally, whereby we want to grow most of our vegetables. As mentioned, the campsite and cottage can be a source of income for the mission. We need to build an ablution block so that the campsite will become more attractive to more people. We need cement, blocks, sanitary ware, taps, etc. as well as paint and labour!!!! (any volunteers!!!!)?

Please come and visit beautiful Mozambique for a holiday and add on a few days for a working outreach volunteer at the mission.

GIRLS BATHROOM

We urgently need funds for the building of a bathroom for the girls dormitory. At present they only have a make-do dilapidated read “shelter” to which they have to carry a bucket of water. Alongside this there is a pit latrine which is in an awful state.

ELECTRICITY

We desperately need to get the mission connected to the electricity network as the generator is on its last legs. It is expensive to run and is often broken. It is an eight hour return trip to Maputo to collect drums of diesel for the generator. This is time consuming and costly in itself, plus the old Land Cruiser is starting to feel these trips!

There is an overhead electricity line 500 meters from the mission which we hope to be able to connect into. We need prayer that we will soon be given permission for this as well as funds for this line and transformers.

VOLUNTEER PROGRAM

We also have a volunteer program where volunteers can come and stay at the mission for varying lengths of time. Activities include educational, spiritual and social interaction with the children, games and beach trips with the children, art and crafts projects with the communities, medical clinic outreaches, building projects at the mission, as well as game counts, elephant and lion monitoring in nearby game reserves.

While in the area time can also be spent snorkeling, fishing and scuba diving with our affiliated operator - Gozo Azul. www.gozoazul.co.za

Contact us to discuss the costs and opportunities related to this program whereby you have a holiday as well as put something back into the children of Southern Mozambique.

BAKERY

Bread sales are going well and improving all the time. We are constantly told that our bread is the best in the area - you should come and try it!!!

Our oven has served us well but it is old and cracking and it looks like it could collapse any minute, which would mean no bread for the children as well as reduced income through bread sales. We constantly strive to employ local people and to become self sufficient. Bread sales, handcraft sales and our camp site are the only means we have for income.

KITCHEN

A kitchen has been built but is still in need of equipment so we can move into it. We need a fridge, freezer and a gas cooker. These items will allow for a much improved state of hygiene. We also need help in marketing the mission - If we can get more traffic to pass through the facility we have a far better chance of becoming self sufficient, which is one of our main goals.